unwanted shortcuts added in favorites

[Brian]

Hi everybody

My computer is connected permanently to the net and behind
a firewall but I keep having shortcuts added in the Links
subfolder of my Favorites. Does anyone have an idea of
what's going on and how I can prevent this ?
Thanks

Brian

 

[DVarnau]

Hi,
Recommended Minimal Security Settings:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/restricted.htm#Setting

And, I would run Ad-aware and spybot S&D periodically.
Ad-aware 6- Lavasoft: http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Spybot - Search & Destroy : http://security.kolla.de/

Regards,
Don